a 500 pound settlementwithu.s. anduk regulators later this week. rbs will cover the bonus pools after a warning from the government that taxpayers should not foot the bill. rbs is planning to float the 316 branches of santander it has so far failed to sell. according to the papers, an ipo would allow the bank to dispose of that unit cleanly. lots going on. we're pleased to be joined by michael brown. welcome. >> happy monday morning. >> i know you want to talk about the super bowl. >> well, that would be nice given i was up watching it. >> i'm impressed. i should have been up staying up all night. my sister lives in baltimore. >> there are plenty of bank stories to get to in the meantime. >> absolutely. >> we're going to hear from george osborne in just a couple on hours' time. what does this mean? >> the idea is, of course, that we should have capital in both parts. but the problem is, there isn't enough capital to go around and, therefore, you don't want to spook the financial markets by saying, by the way, yes, you do need to have this. how do we get to where we want to be, i.e. en

of mergers to talk about. nicole: the first is in airline deal. it was highly anticipatedthatu.s. airwaysand american airlines would merge. first let's hit heinz. i am going to stick with heinz. warren buffett, berkshire hathaway. obviously at a premium. heinz is up 20%. watch the 3:00 p.m. show, we will certainly delve into it more for you. he loves their products. he loves the emerging markets. he thinks it was a great buy. then, we will talk about u.s. airways and american airlines merger. you can see they are finally coming together. the u.s. airways ceo will remain in the top spot as ceo. u.s. airways is down right now. dagen: thank you, nicole. connell: we are waiting for the speaker of the house, john boehner. we say take a look at this. a little over two weeks until automatic spending cuts will kick in. congress taking a week off leaving you just six working days to get something done. dagen: wait until the last minute has become the norm. how do you think this plays out? >> i think the impact on the economy will be small. the cuts are relatively small. we had $175 billion in tax

unveiled by two of the most liberal members oftheu.s. senate.barbara boxer from california and bernie sanders from vermont want to make polluters to manufacturers, and power plant operators pay for the pollution they generate. joining me now with the top republican on the senate energy committee, senator lisa murkowski. thank you for being with us again. great to see you. the carbon tax, good or bad idea >> this is something that is going absolutely nowhere. if what is proposed is something that is going to increase the cost to the consumers, this is just not going to happen. and when you think about the proposal that has been before the cut across, the captain trade proposal, it does not even take out the democratic lead said. it did not want to touch that. and of the to going to want to touch a carbon tax either. this is something that is just going to increase the cost to the consumer at a time that nobody is looking to increase their energy costs. we should not be looking to increase it. we should be making our energy more affordable. gerri: let me give you some numbers here. the

not living intheu.s. butin fantasyland? connell: we will talk about that and immigration reform because it has been huge topics this week. if we told you you could save billions of dollars in foreign aid to corrupt governments with immigration reform would you take that trade? dagen: super bowl feeder and counterfeiters are honest. we bring you more on a record $13.6 million bust in fake nfl merchandise. you got to give me a jersey, if you don't make one i will get one. connell: you will be all right. especially men wearing sports jerseys is one of my pet peeves. let's go to nicole petallides at the nyse-listed 14,000. nicole: don't come down here today because today on the floor of the nyse, support your favorite team. and the trader jackets a lot of traders are wearing their favorite jersey's. the dow four days out and we hit it, we are here, 14,000 right now, a gain of 140 points. dow leaders include bank of america and travelers and verizon and american express and at&t helping along the trend has been a good one, january, the best january in two decades. we kickoff 2013 in a very b

major deals. what's pressuring stocks? >> a fascinating look at ceo confidence,pwc'su.s. chairmanis standing by. right now, he has his annual ceo survey. it might surprise you. >> calling senate's bluff on spending. lou dobbs weighs in. >> news on the stranded carnal cruise ship. the clock cannot turn fast enough. those poor people. >> i agree. up to speed on the markets, back to the floor, annie coal -- and nicole, another sideways day. >> dow down six points, not far off the unchanged line for all three major averages. the nasdaq and s&p squeeze out gains, the dow slightly to the downside. s&p, as we talked about yesterday, right, broader average, and the dow just has 30. it moves the archings more. one thing the traders talked about from the minute i walked in this morning was europe. you see the euro lower, the dollar is strong on a day where we heard that europe is struggling with growth over in germany, in particular, that's the real big one. france and italy would be in there. when you talk about the eurozone and growth potential seeing it is disappointing and not pulling

.theu.s. governmenthas been bringing this up with the chinese for a long time. it is low risk. it is low cost. it is high return and difficult to track. even getting a location on these servers, this is a little bit of guesswork involved there. there are real challenges there. the big question is, how do we respond? connell: if you had to give a great to the american public, how ready are we? >> there are so many elements. you have to peel back the onion. you have to talk about things like, you know, the electrical grid and things like that. i would say we are at a c level. guy forbid, it could come to conflict with the chinese could shut out the lights on us here. shut off the power. shut out though, you know, air traffic control system. connell: thank you. i also want to point out that the ceo of that company preparing the report will be on the next hour of "markets now" with dennis kneale and cheryl casone. dagen: already looking into some stock orders. what does the chief have to say about this? connell: washington's spending problem. entitlement programs like social secur

on its nuclear program. they say the nuclear fuel is for energy reactors.theu.s. isconcerned that they will produce weapons grade material. let's head to the pits of the cme and phil flynn. >> very little reaction down here. the very first place you want to look is the ti spread. it has spread out to the largest level of the year. it is possible that part of that could be this story. a lot of people did not hold out a lot of hope for the stocks. the direct talks with the u.s., they thought maybe something may come out of that. at least they were hopeful. the rejection, now that obviously looks like it will be off the table. these talks will not do a whole heck of a lot. this comes at a time where they are tightening sanctions even more on iran. we saw saudia arabia, and take if you cannot get enough supply, we will pump a little bit more. melissa: that u.s. productivity fell 2% in the fourth quarter to its lowest level in nearly two years. what does the next day to say about our economic recovery? what do you make of that productivity number? that jumped out at me. >> the mov

at the strong dollar. you also have to lookthatu.s. oilproduction did the highest level in almost 20 years. it is absolutely incredible. a couple days ago, everyone was talking about $100 a barrel. now they are wondering if $90 will hold. the april futures just hit $93, as i speak. inventories, of course, rose. it was on the increase in production. a decrease on imports. that really impacted the market. that is good news for gasoline prices. they got hit very hard. the gas inventories fell. that was a bigger drawdown in gasoline. because of the strong dollar, that is keeping that market very strong. heating oil, they do not seem to care. the other big numbers today, natural gas. a drawdown aided in expected. it gave natural gas a little bit of a boost today. we could see a bigger drawdown than expected next week. ashley: phil flynn of price future group. thank you so much. shibani: buckle up for more volatility, it sounds like. take a look at what is happening to the national price of gas. it is up there descent from a month ago. this is refinery plants across the country. they are facing

as we do every 15 minutes. lauren, we are starting the week on an up note. >>thisu.s. stockmarket rally really started in europe. the u.s. market has of arrows across the board. a really tight range for stocks. volume clearly to the upside by about two-one your advance to the client line. really pushing closer to those all-time highs. 14,198. we are not far from there. 1576, we are not far from that either. we are getting there. hopefully, we can keep this winninn streak live. ashley: healthcare provider stocks taking a hit. proposing lowering medicare rates next year. peter barnes joins us now from inside the beltway with the details on this story. peter: they are proposing a cut of about 5% or so in payments to insurance companies that offer medicare advantage is. about a quarter of all seniors in medicare, about 15 million of them, are enrolled in medicare advantage. they could have added benefits. patients have to stay in their healthcare network which helps insurance companies, in theory, manage their costs. private insurers are reimbursed for all of this by the government. t

of cyber attacksagainstu.s. companies.dagen: the white house is considering fines and other trade penalties against china. peter barnes has the very latest from washington. peter: the administration is expected to release its own reports. attorney general eric holder will be holding a news conference on this this afternoon. the u.s. is trying to step up efforts to prevent chinese hacking which have hit dozens of u.s. companies. the second report increasing pressure on the administration to take more forcible action against the chinese for what experts say have been years of systematic x-men nosh. these new programs between u.s. intelligence agencies and companies will take time to roll out. connell: peter barnes in washington, d.c. for us. obviously, this is becoming a bigger and bigger story for us. watch this. >> we have also, regularly and repeatedly, raised our concerns at the highest level with the chinese government about cyber theft. including with sr. chinese officials and the military will continue to do that. connell: former navy seal is with us. you have heard the gover

say they do not have the capability to make a bomb. >> well, zoraida, it will be days beforetheu.s. hasa very good handle on the size of the explosion, the size of the payload, but at first glance what u.s. officials are very concerned about are north korea's claims that it testified a miniaturized nuclear weapon. why is that so concerning? that means they're closer to making a missile that they could launch toward the united states. these types of dplier tesnuclea moves them closer to mastering the idea. it was expected, officials tell me, that north korea warned the u.s. and china yesterday that a test was eminent. after the test president obama issued a statement. what he said was north korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs constitute a threat to u.s. national security and to international peace and security. we will strengthen close coordination with allies and partners and work with our six-party partners,united nations security council and other u.n. member states to pursue this. they will be meeting this morning in an emergency session. my source is telling

. ashley: looking good, robert. melissa: the real housewives husband. ashley: thank you so much.melissa:u.s. homevalues closing out. 2012 medium home values are up 5.9% year over year. dan humphries -- stan humphries expects the recovery to continue. he is here with his predictions. thank you so much for coming on the show. let's start with the worst market for 2016. i want to drill down on some of these details. the places where you do not expect to see the biggest jump over the next year. they may be good opportunities for buyers, right? >> yes. some of the markets that will move slowest over the next year are markets in the midwest and northeast. think cincinnati, cleveland, new york, outside the five boroughs. out in new jersey, the markets are definitely moving slower. melissa: the reason why we highlight those, we call them the worst price appreciation over the next year, but they create good opportunities. talk about some of the best price appreciation targets right now. >> the best price appreciation that we expect to see is coming in markets that were the hardest hit during the do

with the company. >>> meantime, buyout vaufrs come up short. >>> andau.s. judgesays that bp recovered 810,000 of barrels of oil from its 2010 gulf of mexico spill site. the judge ruled that this amount should be excluded from certain penalties that the company may face, cutting its maximum fine by as much as $3.5 billion. a spill-related civil trial as we've been reporting this week is due to start next week in new orleans. >>> at the top of the show, you said something that made me think of ground hog day. you said markets at a new five--year high. >> i said new -- i don't like to say fresh. and you really don't need to say new five-year high -- >> five-year high -- >> but i see it every. where i saw -- >> we say it every day, too. seems like we've been in this position. five-year high. five-year high. ♪ >> we're not that far from a new high. >> a real new high. >> hopefully. how many people -- remember yesterday, how many people said, no, this can't go much -- we've got to have a correction. and you know, a lot of times that's a lonesome cry after a while about the correction and they

-week low againsttheu.s. dollaron concerns over the strength of europe's financial system. the euro fell to an intraday low of 131.44. this after the european central bank announced crisis loan repayment by banks fell short of expectations. >>> lots of actions in the medical -- metals pits this week. gosh, gold, silver. silver and copper both ending the week lower. silver closing down nearly 5% while copper posted a 5 1/2% drop, david. david: we have got it all covered. we have daniel in the pits of the cme. our market panel, larry shover who we usually see in the cme is in new york. and steven sachs, proshares head of capital markets. i want to start with daniel, at the cme. danny, amazing turn around when you think what happened yesterday. how much of that was dependent upon what happened with hewlett-packard? i mean did people look at hewlett-packard as a pace seter here in today's market? >> no, absolutely no.. this is all about the fed and bullard coming out saying they're not going to pare back as quickly as some people thought, definitely sent this thing up. just as yesterday when

're seeing red arrows on the board. most notably the euro hitting a one-week low againsttheu.s. dollar.in asia, china up eighth straight session. nikkei highest level since september of 2008. disney set to open at record highs. strength in media networks. word that it's planning films based on "star wars" characters. >>> zynga, revenues continue to fall and the social gaming company said 2013 would be profitable. >>> company seeing momentum in america's improvement in europe and big margin gains for 2013 for ralph lauren. >>> the post office could be eliminating or cutting back deliveries on saturday. we'll explain. they carry the official announcement at 10:00 a.m. this morning. >>> we start with disney. shares rising pre-market, set to open at all-time highs at fiscal fourth quarter profits beat the markets. growing attendance at the theme parks. real news came during bob iger's interview with our own julia boorstin. >> in fact, we are working on a few stand-alone films. larry kazden and simon ginberg are working on films derived on "star wars" characters that are not part of the ov

, art, certainly we have a lot of deals going on. the biggest monthforu.s. dealssince june 2008. it's the gdps around the world putting a wrempbl into futures this morning. >> particularly in europe, shares of gdp reports knocked europe for a tailspin here. not too much valentine's day cheer showing up. so far beginning to look like the dow has given up rallying for lent. let's hope that doesn't continue. >> lent is a long time so let's hope not. in terms of the g-20, it's sort of a photo-op and that's it. is it much more important this time around as there's so many statements regarding currency manipulation being bandied about, having an impact on currency market and equity markets. >> you're absolutely correct. it went from g 7 comments to possibly right on the main table. g-20 meeting. the thrust is the end. how do we keep this orderly and prevent an outright currency war from breaking out. we've got a lot of american message fund players going along. half the world appears to be short the end believing this is going on. >> a longtime strategy to a certain extent, worries about

this one. and turning tail in the persian gulf. the budget act is cutting theregion'su.s. carrierfleet down to one. what could this mean for oil security? one of the reasons top security experts -- one of the ream's top security experts. even when they say it's not, it's always about money. ♪ melissa: all right, our top story tonight is a potential landmark legal case out of chicago. it could impact anyone with an employer-issued smartphone. a chicago police sergeant claim it is city owes him overtime pay for all of the time he's spent answering e-mails outside work on his smartphone. he says he was pressured by his bosses to be available after hours, but he wasn't paid for that time. now as many as 200 other officers are expected to sign on to the suit, and it could cost the city of chicago millions. so should you be getting paid for answering your e-mails on your blackberry at home? with me now are arthur eye dahlia and employment expert katherine misnshu. thanks to both of you for joining us. arthur, this is something that applies to even. i think almost everybody has a smartphone

that dykes had a gun? the bunker was four feet below. >> interestingly enough within we learned throughtheu.s. military,through a few sources confirmed to cnn, that the military loaned to the fbi high-tech detection device typically used to find homemade bombs in war zones. we do not know if this specifically was used to find that gun. it was on site. there were military members on site. we know those military members would have only been in support roles and were not involved in the raid that went in to save ethan. >> victor blackwell, live for us this morning. thank you very much. >>> new developments in the murders of well-known exnavy s.e.a.l. chris kyle and his friend, chad littlefield at a texas shooting range, police say the suspect, 25-year-old eddie ray routh, an iraq war veteran suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. he had been taken to a mental hospital twice over the past five months after threatening to kill his family and himself. the former marine is currently on so you cried watch on suicide watch. >>> federal records show buses operated by the company call failed mor

. a mixed bag for this group in particular. dagen: we can skip the american airlines potential mergerwithu.s. airways,the biggest airline in the world. thank you, nicole. connell: blizzard watch for parts of the northeast. dagen: the very latest forecast for us. >> good morning. we have all the ingredients necessary to make for a major storm into friday night. including a big arctic air mass. the coldest temperatures in new england we have seen so far this winter. a storm in the midwest moving in and something we have not seen with any of these through the past week. gulf moisture. you have that storm. soaking rain across the coast, some have your thunderstorms around pensacola, much of this along the i-5 corridor. bringing in not only thunderstorms but tasty, tasty mess in chicago this morning, more than two-hour delays at o'hare. it is going to rapidly intensify moving north and east. we can expect some significant delays not only across new york but into the boston area as well, travel will be nearly shut down. heavy amounts of snow. places like hartford, springfield toward massachusetts

,senioru.s. economistfor deutsche bank security. good to have you here. your year. i mean, we have people walking around with long faces. all parts of the country because they're unemployed. the economy is contracting. and they just don't understand how nice it is to be on wall street. >> well, it is chilly down on wall street. i assure you. but we are seeing some positive signs in the economy. so, yes of the fourth quarter did not look so great. the best top-level gdp number. but when you look beneath the surface we see some important undercurrents. does green shoots cut consumer spending. lou: seeing that come back. >> consumer spending is picking up. the investment which had been contracting. nav is picking up again. the housing market is picking up. but the domestic economy looks dece. it needs time to run until that an employer rate is down, but it increasingly looks like we are building some momentum. lou: you know, i really am. and i am delighted to see your optimism and to hear that the bright outlook, but i am concerned. consumers are getting hit from taxes. the fiscal cli

's the higher end of walmart's previously issued guidance range. the world's largest retailer forecast,theu.s. keysame-store sales to grow between 1% and 3%. last year's fourth quarter grew 1.5 year over year. but beyond financials, investors will look into possible investigations. there hasn't been a clear timeline as to when the investigation results will be released from the allegations that walmart issued millions of dollars in bribes to officials in mexico. if you remember, it was last quarter that walmart stated an s.e.c. filings that they have expanded those investigations beyond just mexico and to brazil, china and india. >> you know, this is going to be a fascinating story today. we heard about these leaked memos. walmart knocking it down saying things were taken out of context. i saw something overnight from the nrf, national retail federation where they said something like six out of ten americans say their savings and their budgeting has been somewhat or greatly impacted by the changes in the taxes that kicked in at the beginning of the year. >> and i think it's interesting becau

am. thanks, nicole. well, american airlinesandu.s. airwaysare closer to a deal that would create the world's biggest airline, so, nicole, what's u.s. airways doing as a result of this? >> well, for the most part we're seeing the trance parsports and mergers and acquisitions happening. and it's obviously a big move here. >> quickly, charlie. >> one comment and a lot of reporting about the merger, we'll be talking about this. i think the pilots union has a bigger piece in this it's not a done deal, guys. >> cheryl knows airlines from the inside literally. thank you very much. now, it's time for your seven early movers, weak outlook from green mountain coffee roasted, better than expected profits at education company devry. and over 7%, internet services company akamai slowly reporting revenue growth, good news on big time up about 18% and surprise fourth quarter profit from insurance giant allstate. could we get a look at that, allstate is up about 2 1/4%. better than expected profit in real estate brokage. cbre trading up about 10% now and robot maker, cautious first quarter guida

. hit a intraday low versustheu.s. dollar.>>> the numberofu.s. workersfiling new applications for unemployment benefits fell by 5000 to a seasonally adjusted 366,000 last week. the four-week moving average, we tell you about that because is smofs out the wreak to week volatility, fell it a five-year low of 350,500. that is good news. ashley: straight to adam shapiro. we have a couple companies reporting, athenahealth. coinstar. begin with athenahealth. >> let's start with them. this is a beat on earnings per share, ashley. 29 cents versus what the street expected, 28 cents. revenue is a miss, 16 .6 million. the street was expecting 116.9 million. take a look at coinstar. this is an interesting mix here. you've got an earnings per share breath of 93 cents when the street was expecting 73 cents. revenue not nearly what the street was expecting. 564.1 million. the street was expecting 580.19 million. liz: the problem when you miss on revenue. you can engineer the eps. squeeze out all kinds of cost savings. that is why both these names, athenahealth and coinstar selling off rather

, back to you. >> thank you very much, simon hobbs. let's see how this is all going to impacttheu.s. sessionhere. we have the head of u.s. equity and quantitative strategy with bank of america, merrill lynch. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, too. thank you for having me on. >> we've been able to put europe on the back burner, but right now it might bring back bad memory for investors that this is exactly what derailed us a year ago. >> it's eerily similar. you know, i think, though, that the big surprise for the u.s. equity market is that we might not see a pullback. i feel like everyone's expecting one. and we might not actually see one. for a bunch of reasons. i mean, last year, i think one thing that was a little bit different was that sentiment was not as negative as it was at this point, where we are today. if you look at wall street strategists, equity allocation is still sub 50%. you've still got a lot of strategists with price targets below where the market is today. i feel like a lot of investors have regarded this rally that we've seen so far as, you know, too far, to

quester. certainly a reconciliation after the fact thattheu.s. isspending so much more than it brings in. i think one of the interesting things, just around rates, bullard yesterday, for example, said that he expects 3% real growth this year. so 3% real growth and 2% inflation, that gets me to march like a 5% ten-year. we're nowhere close to that. lloyd blankfein was on ur yo showing saying investors, if there is some sort of ex oh dus into stocks, and that's becoming a story -- >> and lloyd has been talking about just the potential for a stock market boom, too. >> dean, the name of your firm is macro, right? >> yes. >> so you're used to looking macro? >> yes. >> but typically, three were four, five years ago, isn't your first thing that you talk about, you mentioned washington, the sequester, the debt ceiling, every single thing you mentioned was policymakers. has it always been like that or is this a different period for your firm? >> this is i think pretty new. >> so it's hard to avoid talking about those things, right? >> that you have to pay attention to central banks, of course,

, denying the reports. and countering it was the victimofu.s. hacking.>>> and the bulls are back from a three-day weekend. can the s&p 500 post an eighth straight week of gains? we've got four days to find out. it's tuesday, february 19th, 2013. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin who is back from vacation. let's get started with the markets. as joe mentioned, the s&p winning streak has been a strong one. in the meantime, the dow is coming off a second straight weekly loss. although, really, if you looked at this last week, it was the ever so slightest of losses. u.s. equity futures are indicated higher. dow up by 21 points. s&p is up by two points above value fair and the nasdaq is up about 3. in 20 minutes, we'll turn to predictions on where the markets go from here. then in the next hour, delivering alpo. we'll talk to the manager of a $11.5 billion hedge fund. this fund was up 30% last year. don't miss pine river's ceo brian taylor. on our radar this morning,

%. their reasoning behind that istheu.s. oilproduction. we are up 376 million in total inventory. that is 10% higher than where we were one year ago today. dependence on opec, dependent on nigeria. i still think route oil prices slide a little bit more. ashley: very interesting. thank you so much. shibani: the s&p 500 is up more than 5% in the 2013 year. we are recovering, but have stocks hit their ceiling? our next guest causes a fake market rally. a little bit of a head fake. i know you have not been a believer. it seems that two days ago your predictions that this was a fake market rally were right. now, we are back up. what do you make of all this volatility? >> we need to put it into perspective. the federal reserve seeks control of this market through quantitative easing. that is what propels the market. the market starts to falter whenever there is even a little bit of hesitation. i think if you really drowned out into the economic numbers, this far into a so-called recovery, it is very difficult to give any kind of justification to a market advancing at that point. so good is, that h

posting a fifth straight week ofgains.u.s. equityfutures this morning, you can see, are lighter, down by about 33 points for those dow futures. s&p futures are off by about 4 1/2. but, again, the dow above 14,000 for the first time since october 2007 on friday. oil analysts are saying that trading could be choppy in the energy markets today amid growing tensions in the middle east. yesterday, israel hinted that its air force may have been behind the air strike. on a missile site in syria in order tody stroi weapons it believes were headed for lebanon. you can see right now, crude oil prices down by about 11%. 96.85. and, steve, i'll send it over to you. >> we'll talk to boeing about compensation for the grounding of the dreamliner. it estimates it will cost nearly $8el million through tend of march. barclay's finance director chris lucas and the bank's top legal expert are set to retire. the departures add to change at the top as the financial giant struggles to put disasters behind it. resimple in moment will officially become blackberry today. the rim name doesn't completely disappe

on the docket. it hasn't fallen apart like everybody want thad to. here we sit intheu.s. witheverybody is buying hand over fist. i've been doing it a long time and i'm still conflicted. i know these corporations have been showing better results. but at the end of the day, we still have qe because of no growth. >> rebecca patterson would tell you you have just enough growth, actually, you have a wonderful spot where it's just weak enough where the fed keeps their foot on the pedal and that's why it's the perfect moment, at least now, for the market. >> i guess it's that little circle we used to have on our baseball bats. we have to be careful about that thing cracking in half. that's what i think a sweet spot is. here we are, you have a 7.9% rate. i can debate all long about whether the housing market is getting better or not. that's the reason why we have this influx of qe. why would we be without qe? ultimately, it's all about growth and we just don't have it. here we go, the stocks are full steam ahead. i can't tell my customers not be on board, but i can tell them not the be on boar

, dave singer fromtheu.s. marshals,special agent in charge, tim delaney from the federal bureau of investigations. assistant chief, state of california, department of fish and game and chief bill siegel, california highway patrol. if you have any questions regarding individual or specific questions about their individual investigations, please hold those until all the question and answer period and with that, i introduce sheriff john mcmahan. >> good afternoon. the events that occurred yesterday in the big bear area brought to close an extensive man hunt for a murder suspect, christopher dorner. our deputies in big bear responded to the report of a stolen vehicle with the subject matching the description of dorner. he crashed that vehicle and carjacked a vehicle in the oaks area. the deputies continued searching that area for the new suspect vehicle, the white pick-up truck, as well as dorner. the deputies were able to locate the vehicle, crashed, and he, dorner fled into a vacant cabin. as the deputies were arriving, we believe suspect dorner began firing and ambushed our deput

secretary nominee jack lew heading to capitol hill. let's check on where we stand in termsofu.s. futures.it looks like we'll be building off of multi-year highs here in the u.s. the picture in europe, again, the sort of anti-race to the base movement going on. the euro is moving higher this morning. we see green arrows across the board. overnight in asia, japan's nikkei down by about a percent here. on heavy volume. the yen gaining there. our road map starts in washington, d.c. the president unveiling an ambitious agenda. he also called for billions to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. >> the dow is back above 14,000. only 1% away from an all-time interday high. the s&p also near its highest levels since november of 2007. what could help markets today? better than expected earnings from deere and gains by general electric and comcast. >> those big gains because of a big deal. comcast agreeing to buy general electric's stakes. in the mean time, let's send it down to carl in d.c. >> a big night here last night. the president addressing the nation in the first state of the union during

becoming the target ofau.s. droneattack. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." . >>> we begin with yet another sensational turn of events in the oscar pistorius murder case. after a week of shocking and sometimes heartbreaking testimony, pistorius is now out of jail. the one-time olympic athlete who is known worldwide as the blade runner still faces charges of murdering his girlfriend on valentine's day. cnn's robyn curnow is joining us. update our viewers, robin. >> reporter: hi there. thanks for having me. can you believe it, it's only eight days ago that oscar pistorius admitted to shooting his girlfriend on valentine's day. it's been such a roller coaster ride for all of us watching this tragedy, slowly learning about all of these new details and one part of the story which is certainly not over did come to some conclusion today as os star pistorius walked out of court and is spending the night at a family home. take a look at this. a media frenzy on a road at rush hour. cameras trying to see what's behind the tinted window of the silver land rover, a glimpse of osca

, but it is not a final step. it can only really address whattheu.s. governmentdoes and does not do, cannot make congress have to do something. i think the effort here is to move forward with a collaborative process in which the private sector works with the government so they are not facing unrealistic mandate. also to make sure we are raising our game in terms of defense all across the critical infrastructure. congress will have to act to really complete the process. melissa: what you think about practices that there would be some federal agency that enforces it. that sounds like the sec trying to deal with and monitor trading and although there are many flaws and problems, please there is a revelatory body out with a set of rules enforcing them. would that work when applied to cyber security? >> in certain areas of the economy we already have preparatory agencies that have looked at cyber security and have made it part of what the requirements are. other parts of critical infrastructure don't have those kind of revelatory bodies, so you're going to have to even it out. the executive order doe

army has been behind a series of cyber attacks ontheu.s. thewhite house is reporting considering fines and other trade penalties. china denies any involvement, but hacking, those stories are big today. back to you, nicole, you're watching google the day after it it broke above 800, where is it? >> yeah, hey, well, let's talk about google, right? hey, i was checking on it, 8.07 was the high and new hundred level and he's he shouting his opening trades and you can see it above the 800 mark at 805, a good one. stuart: and it broke above 800 on our air as of this time yesterday. nicole, yahoo! what's with it, a new look or something, what's that? >> a new look and the stock is up about 1/2 a percent for yahoo! and that's one that we'll watch as the new look as well on their site. so, keep an eye on that one as well. when i think about google though, i have to double-check, but when that initial public offering happened, i think it was like $84 or something. stuart: yes. >> and it's at 807. i'm talking about the cuts, but it was in the the 80's, if you liked the idea then, you're just

.com you can printrealu.s. postagefor all your letters and packages. i have exactly the amount of postage i need, the instant i need it. can you print only stamps? no... first class. priority mail. certified. international. and the mail manicks it up. i don't leave the shop anymore. [ male announcer ] get a 4 week trial plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. ♪ lou: if the 2 percent payroll tax took a bite out of your income, sit down, take a deep breath. liz macdonald is going to join us in just a few moments, and you are going to a -- you're not going to be pleased with what she has to say because the taxes are going higher, and in many different ways. this is president's state, the stock market closed. year to date has been a good year. the dow leading the way higher, up 877. just this year of nearly 7% on the year to date. the s&p 500 gaining six and a half%. the nasdaq up just about almost 6%. bmw recalling 570,000 of its cars, of faulty battery cable is the reason which cses the engine to stal

or get outofu.s. stocks,are they going to regret making that call at this point? >> i think those days are kind of over. we're not going to nationalize the banking system. the center will hold. this is not 1933, '34, where fdr comes in and he's worried about the left, he's worried about the right. we did have that feeling in 2008, 2009. those days of 100% cash, that's for traders, it's not for the people at home. >> not practical. >> no. >> can you imagine calling, i want to go -- all the cash right now, sell it all. >> listen, you've only missed your -- the dow at 6780 and you go 100% stock? you can do that. it's called whip saw. buy high, selling low. >> the last couple of days there was certainly a feeling in the market that we were perhaps on the cusp of this bigger pullback, and the s&p right now is still above 1,500. the dow is only 50 points or so away from the 14,000 level. >> right. >> yet again. it shows you, you need to temper all of these quick decisions that people so want to make. >> things are mixed. today i feel people say the sequester's off. look, i think it's not as

, some politicians suggest. joining us now with the economic outlook,chiefu.s. economistfor ubs investment research. great to have you here. talking about terrible thing, apocalypse, armageddon is the president of these united states. he's mistaken? >> all you have to do is add the numbers. they say this sequester is $85 billion. that is based on budget authority. what they actually spend less behind budget authority so when commiists figured this, they take half of the 85 billion divided by the gdp and three tenths or four tenths of 1%. it's not that big right now. lou: one of the thing, and i don't want to engage you on the conversation with the president's veer rasety, but the fact of the matter, as we nod on the broadcast, the president talking about first responders, policemen, firemen, emts losing their jobs because of sequester. we don't know what he was thinking when he said that, but i want to know what's going to happen with the economy, and i think everyone watching this wants to know where we are. in contraction in the fourth quarter with the gdp, and numbers suggest

to more than 70 percent of361u.s. metromarkets. that's a big deal. some of the things that got hit hardest by the housing bust a loss vegas, phoenix, seattle are all coming back. still, some of the businesses are saying housing shouldot be looked at as ivestment. but i beg to differ. let's see what my next guest says. founder of the corporate group. always great to have you on the show. i want to talk to you about the comments. he says you can't think of the houses and investment. >> in addition to what he also said, you're better off renting out and buying. i think he's out of his mind and it's the worst advice you possibly give to anyone in the marketplace. first off, for everyone who is out there renting, they will go up like crazy because so much of the housing stock that was converted to rentals by investors is going to be a debt of the market now that prices have returned to my going to be flipped, and people will raise trends, so there is no security. most importantly if i could just say one thing, ii live it, eat, breathe it every day, the emotional card that people have to

at the world's largest supplier of oil for the momenttheu.s. maytrump them eventually. major weakness in gold. we now have equities down pretty much the lows of the session. i am pulling up the dow chart, still a few names that tend to look a little bit weak at the moment. bank of america, caterpillar down, but what is going on that would cause a 60-point is lost? >> on top of all the things you mentioned, you have to sequester on the first of march and the market now up 7%. so i think probably taking money off the table anyway with all these negative things on top of it and this is what you're getting. we were very surprised the market was going up as well but had been most of the day. in the last few minutes the market has come in a nothing we didn't already know. liz: there is the belief that initially there is the first wave of what is happening with the fed minutes, and then it climbed back up, able to get down to about 12 points, 14-point and now 92 points to the downside. it is continuing to get a little worse minute by minute. >> and it will probably continue to do so. we have

inu.s. historyis dead. 38-year-old chris kyle was killed with 35-year-old chad littlefield at a gun range near ft. worth, texas, of the man accused of the killing has been identified as eddie ray routh. he's now in custody facing two counts of capital murder. number two in alabama where police are keeping contact with a man at the center of a hostage standoff. jimmy lee dikes holding a 5-year-old boy in his underground bunker. it is now the sixth day of the standoff. he allowed police to deliver comfort items for the young boy like potato chips and toys. >>> a man accused of raping and killing an indian student on a new delhi bus pleaded not guilty. it sparked mass protests and marked changes against sex crimes. the defendants could face the death penalty. their trial starts tuesday. a sixth attacker is a juvenile and will be tried separately. number for the man who said he was jumped by grammy winner chris brown won't press charges or even sue. rising r & b start frank ocean said on his facebook page, he will choose sanity and drop the matter. it was a fight over a parking space at

in washington in syrian policy.au.s. officialfamiliar with the deliberations said the issue is dead, at least for now. >>> john brennan, the president's pick to be the next cia director getting drilled at his confirmation hearing. he was pressed the targeted killing of terror suspects, including u.s. citizens. >> i think there's a misimpression on the part of some american people who believe that we take strikes to punish terrorists for past transgressio transgressions. nothing could be further from the truth. we only take actions as a last resort to save lives when there's no other alternative. >> the brennan hearing was interrupted several times by protesters. at one point, senator diane feinstein stopped the proceedings and actually had the room cleared. >>> all right. too close for comfort. scientists at nasa say a giant asteroid, about half the size of a football field, is headed our way. they predict it will pass very close to earth on february 15th. no closer than about 17,100 miles. it's one of many large space objects barrelling toward us at the very moment. experts say all of them,

that china is not the only country involved in committing economic espionage againsttheu.s., butsix of the seven cases it cites in the new trade secrets report involve china. the administration's promising stepped up efforts including increased trade and law enforcement to protect u.s. trade secrets, especially, in light of that separate report this week on aggressive chinese hacking of dozens of u.s. companies. >> as critical technology has advanced, criminals adapted accordingly. our need to keep pace with these changes remains imperative, and the stakes have never really been higher. in some industries, a single trade secret is worth millions or even billions, billions of dollars. >> this report today follows up on the president's executive order that he signed last week to try to beef up cyber security efforts, but new programs such as better information about cyber threats between u.s. intelligence agencies and private sector companies will take time to roll out. david and liz? liz: thank you, peter, very much, peter barnes. david: news from the fed minutes moving markets today

't the guy that they were expecting. leon panetta is in europe today representingtheu.s. assecretary of defense in the meeting of world leaders. chuck hagel was supposed to be there and we'll let you know how the congressional haggling is playing out on the world stage. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. [ female announcer ] total effects user kim scott still looks amazing. but with kids growing up fast, fighting seven signs of aging gets harder. introducing total effects moisturizer plus serum. for the ninety-two practices, two proms, and one driving test yet to come. she'll need our most concentrated total effects ever. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve d

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